PBM Plus

What is PBM Plus?

PBM Plus is a set of image manipulation tools that supports many of the most popular image formats including GIF, TIFF, PCX, PBM, PGM, PPM, X11 bitmap, and Sun Rasterfile, It can output images to Postscript files. Please see the manual pages for more information on the types on image manipulations that it can do. The commands can be called from the command line and are commonly piped together (i.e. commanda | commandb | commandc > outfile).

How to Use

You will need to add the following to your .tcshrc

source /usr/local/Standards/pbmplus

Since there is no one program to run, you will need to look in /usr/local/pbmplus/bin for the names of programs to run.

Manuals

For more information, read the manual pages from the list created by doing the following:

man -k pbm
man -k ppm
man -k pgm

Availability

PBM Plus is available on the Suns.

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